OneFinger: obtaining the program

The OneFinger desktop environment is made of two packages, to be installed separately:

The OneFinger "core";
The OneFinger "kicker applet". This is completely optional and only available to KDE users. (See the screenshots page for a description of it.)

Precompiled packages

I am not aware of any reasonably recent precompiled packages (.rpm, .deb, ...). Unfortunately, I have no resources to provide them, so contributions are especially welcome.

However, the OneFinger core is trivial to install from source, since it is written in python and does not require compilation. Only the kicker applet requires compilation.

Sources

You can easily get the program in source form. First you'll have to get the sources (see below), then you'll have to install them. Regarding the installation:

The OneFinger core is written in python and therefore easy to install, but it requires the libraries PyQt and PyKDE. Furthermore, it requires "konsole", "kdesu" and "kfind" to be in your path. These applications are usually included in the "kdebase" package.
The OneFinger kicker applet is written in C++ and therefore requires kde-devel, make, autoconf, automake, etc. in order to be installed.

More detailed installations instructions can be found in the sources.

Regarding how to get the sources, there are two ways to get the program in source form: the official source release and the CVS repository:

Official source release

The latest source release of the OneFinger core and OneFinger applet are available here.

Latest snapshot - CVS

To get the absolutely latest source code you must use a program called CVS. Open a terminal and copy&paste this text:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/onefinger checkout onefinger

This will create a directory called onefinger in your current dir, and put the source code of the OneFinger core in it.

To download the OneFinger kicker applet:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/onefinger checkout kicker_applet

This will create a directory called kicker_applet in your current dir, and put the source code of OneFinger kicker applet into it.

Browsing the code online

You can also browse the source code online with sourceforge: simply click here.